Heavy Quark Coupled Channel Dynamics from Thermal Shifts

Abstract

QCD at finite temperature below the phase transition should be determined in terms of colour singlet states such as hadrons and strings. We show how quark-hadron duality allows extracting sensible information concerning heavy quark and string breaking coupled channel dynamics from Polyakov loop correlators.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures. Poster Presented by E.R.A. at XIIth Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, August 29th to September 3rd 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece